LA4036 - Indigenous People and Law in Australia
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Law Office (pre 2015) |
The subject examines the impact of Australian law on Indigenous peoples. Policies and practices for building cross-cultural awareness, doing ethical research, professional best practice and promoting reconciliation are outlined. Major topics addressed by the subject include: Terra Nullius and dispossession; the Constitution and the race power; sovereignty and citizenship rights; a Treaty and international human rights law; governance and self determination; criminal law and over-representation; child welfare law, assimilation and genocide; native title and property rights; intellectual property law and traditional knowledge; heritage law and sacred sites; social, economic, cultural rights and social exclusion; biodiversity conservation law and caring for country; rights and/or mediation; social justice and reconciliation.
Learning Outcomes
- to develop a cross-cultural awareness for practice and co-existence as citizens;
- to enable students to contrast competing systems of governance, norms, values and beliefs operating in the contemporary Australian context;
- to enable students to critique the appropriateness of state law and legal institutions and processes for Indigenous people;
- to enable students to understand the historical development of the law relating to the Indigenous peoples of Australia in a local and international context;
- to enable students to understand the key areas of Australian law that impact on Indigenous people.
| Prerequisites: | (LA1101 and LA1102 and LA1103 and LA1104) 0 (LA1007 and LA1006) |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2014 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Ms Heron Loban. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); presentations (10%); essays (40%); essay proposal (10%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2014 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Ms Heron Loban. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); presentations (10%); essays (40%); essay proposal (10%). |
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